Climate-Driven Alteration of Intertidal Habitats for Migratory Birds in the San Francisco Bay Estuary

This project evaluates the effects of global climate change and sea level rise on estuarine intertidal habitat in the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Flyway migratory waterbirds that rely on this habitat. Phase 2 of this project is a continuation of work to evaluate the effects of global climate change and sea level rise (SLR) on intertidal shoals in the San Francisco Bay Estuary and the migratory waterbirds that rely on this critically important resource in the Pacific Flyway. The primary objectives are to: 1) use downscaled global climate change models to translate SLR and climate scenarios into habitat quantity predictions through Delft3D and Dflow-FM (unstructured grid) geomorphic modeling; 2) model the response...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2010, 2012, Applications and Tools, CA, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Decision support, Estuarine, Federal, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Marine, Marsh, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, SF Bay/Delta, San Francisco Bay, Science Project, Southwest CSC, State agencies, Wetland, benthic, birds, cascade, completed, currents, delft, dem, downscale, environment, geomorphology, intertidal, invertebrate, invertebrates, model, sea level rise, sediment flux, shoals, slr, tidal, waterbirds, wave energy, Fewer tags

Foraminifera biostratigraphy of sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA

Variability in sediment properties with depth and the thickness of individual sedimentary layers are critical determinants of seabed acoustic response. The New England Mud Patch (NEMP), located south of Cape Cod, is an unusual feature on the U.S. Continental Shelf in that it is composed of fine-grained sediment layers containing a relatively-homogeneous mix of sand, silt, and clay-sized particles bounded by more typical sandy shelf sediments. The unique characteristics and nature of this deposit is due to a derivation of sediments that have been transported to, and deposited in, a basal bowl-shaped depression since the last glacial maximum. Ninety-two piston, vibra-, and gravity cores with a maximum length of 8.2...

Categories: Data; Tags: Atlantic, Cruise ID EN577, Globobulimina, Holocene, Martha's Vineyard, All tags... Massachusetts, NEMP, New England Mud Patch, R/V Endeavor, Seabed Experiment Area, U.S. Continental Shelf, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, WHCMSC Field Activity 2016-001-FA, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, acoustic cores, benthic, biostratigraphy, clay deposits, core analysis, cores, faunal and floral census (microscopic), foraminifera, fossils, geology, gravity coring, microfossils, micropaleontology, oceans, paleontology, piston cores, piston coring, planktonic, sand deposits, sediment samples, sedimentology, stratigraphy, trigger cores, unconsolidated deposits, vibracores, vibracoring, Fewer tags

Benthic Habitat

This data product was created as part of the Northwest Atlantic Marine Ecoregional Assessment. The Nature Conservancy developed this science-based ecoregional assessment for the Northwest Atlantic Marine region (Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina). This assessment synthesizes information on oceanography, chemistry, geology, biology, and social science to inform decisions about coastal and marine ecosystems. By integrating this information at a regional level, the Conservancy is able to provide both a greater understanding of the interrelated biological diversity of the marine ecoregion, and a clearer picture of the current condition of its natural areas and the challenges to their continued persistence....

Categories: Data; Tags: Data, LCC Network Science Catalog, NAMERA, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, benthic, All tags... completed, marine, Fewer tags